Core Modules

During the course work in semester one and two the students have to complete 6 core modules and two laboratory modules. Each module has 45 contact hours. They will take place at facilities at NTU by Professors of TUM or NTU.

module code essential modules lecturers hours sem NM 6001 Digital IC Design Prof Goh Prof Yeo Prof Chang 45 1 NM 6002 Analog IC Design Prof Chan Prof Tan Prof Siek Prof Tiew 45 1 NM 6003 System on Chip Solutions & Architecture Prof Herkersdorf 45 1 NM 6004 Design Methodology & Automation Prof Schlichtmann 45 1 NM 6005 Digital Signal Processing Prof Xue Ping Prof Lin Zhiping 45 1 NM 6006 Mixed Signal Circuit Design Prof Landsiedel 45 2 module code laboratory modules hours sem NM 6008 Lab 2: Digital IC Design 45 1 NM 6007 Lab 1: Analog IC Design 45 2

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Elective Modules

The student has to choose 4 of the following electives:

module code electives lecturers lecture hours sem NM 6009 RF IC Design (NTU) Prof Do, Prof Zhang, Prof Boon 45 2 NM 6012 Advanced MOSEFT & Novel Devices (TUM) Prof Hansch 45 2 NM 6013 Nano-Electronics (TUM) Prof Lugli 45 2 NM 6014 Design for Testability of VLSI (NTU) Prof Ong Prof Wong 45 2  NM6016 Simulation and Optimization of Analog Circuits (TUM)   Prof Schlichtmann Dr. Graeb 45 2

*More electives are about to come No registration is required. Electives will be completed in two weeks each. The exam will be at the end of each elective.

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Cross-discipline Modules

module code module name lecturers hours sem NM 6020 Business & Technical English Prof Chan Prof Murphy 80 1 CD 5131 International Patent Law Dr Respondek 10 1 CD 5180 Selected Topics in Management Methods Dr Chow 10 1 CD 5030 Aspects of European and Asian History and Culture Dr Woebs 10 2 CD 5170 Selected Topics in Business Administration Dr Rossbach 10 2

For those students who are interested there will be a german language course offered.

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Core Modules

Digital IC Design

Review of Integrated Circuit Fundamentals. Layout and Design Issues. CMOS Digital Circuits. BiCMOS Digital Circuits. Sub-System Design in Digital Circuits. Design Methodologies.

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Analog IC Design

Review of Fundamentals. Analog Building Blocks. Switched Capacitor Circuits. Current Mode Circuits. Continuous-Time Filters. Data Converters.

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System on Chip Solutions & Architecture

Basics of CMOS integrated circuits from a system's perspective. From MOSFET transistor to realization of combinational / sequential logic. Finite state machines (FSM), SRAM, DRAM, FLASH, FPGA, CPU core building blocks. Packaging and i/o technology. IC design methodologies. Standard cell, custom, platform SoC, System modeling. Projection of IC technology scaling and implementation alternatives. Integrated system solutions in internetworking and communications. SONET/SDH transport framers and digital cross connects. Ethernet LAN/ATM SAN switches. Control point processors and communication controllers. Network processors.

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Design Methodology & Automation

Computer-aided design of analog and digital integrated circuits. VLSI design flow. System level, algorithmic level, register transfer level, logic level, circuit level. VLSI design methods, high-level synthesis, logic synthesis, layout synthesis. Analog and digital simulation, test design, formal verification. Techniques from discrete mathematics and computer science.

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Digital Signal Processing

Introduction. Discrete Fourier transform (DFT) and fast Fourier transform (FFT). Z transform. Digital filters. Linear prediction and optimum linear filters. Power spectrum estimation

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Mixed Signal Circuit Design

Fundamentals of discrete time signal processing. MOSFET as a switch. Sample & hold circuits, switched capacitor circuits. Data converter fundamentals. Nyquist rate D/A and A/D converters. Over sampling, noise shaping, A/D and D/A converters using sigma-delts modulators. Switched capacitor filters.

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Lab 1: Analog IC Design

Design of a Wide-band Amplifier from schematic to layout verification.

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Lab 2: Digital IC Design

Design, simulation, layout and verification of Digital Circuits & Systems

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Elective Modules

RF IC Design

System Design Considerations. CMOS RF Components and Devices. Low-noise amplifier (LNA); Mixers; Voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs). RF power amplifiers. Phase-Locked Loops and Frequency Synthesizers

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Advanced MOSEFT & Novel Devices

Historical development of mainstream MOSFETs until today: economical, technological and physical fundamentals. Properties of long channel and short channel MOSFETs. Hot carrier effects, scaling rules, basic of charge carrier transport (quantum-mechanical, hydro-dynamics, ballistics). Proposed new MOSFET structures (vertical MOSFETs, double-gate, fully-depleted MOSFETs). Hot-electron transistors, tunneling transistors, low-dimensional devices, single-electron transistor, single-electron memories, quantum-electronics.

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Nano-Electronics

Low dimensional structures: quantum wells, quantum wires and quantum dots. Electronic, optical, transport porperties of nanostructures. Quantum semiconductor devices. Fabrication and characterization techniques of nanotechnology. Applications of nanostructures, nanodevices and nanosytems. The bottom-up approach to nanotechnology: introduction to molecular electronics and optoelectronics. Organic materials for electronics: self-assembled monolayers; conducting polymers; carbon nanotubes. Circuit implementations and architectures for nanostructures: quantum cellular automata and cellular non linear networks. Introduction to quantum computing.

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Design for Testability of VLSI

Fault Models and Testability concepts. Test Generation and Fault Simulation Algorithms. Introduction to Testable Design. Test Response Compression. Shift-register polynomial division. Pseudo-random sequence generators. Special purpose shift-register circuits. Random pattern BIST. Built-in boundary scan structure. Limitations and other concerns of random pattern test. Test techniques for automatic test equipment.

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